Haram is a mercurial collaboration between incendiary rap duo Armand Hammer, and living legend
The Alchemist. For the first time ELUCID and billy woods have crafted an album with a single producer
and the result is extraordinary. With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive
storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface,
black and bone-crushingly cold at depth. Haram is a collection of the profane and the pure; a reminder
that that which is forbidden is also sacrosanct.
The artists are joined by their friends and fellow travelers on this journey. KAYANA’s golden voice ups the
wattage on “Black Sunlight,” while Fielded’s sultry alto gets chopped and screwed on “Aubergine”. Earl
Sweatshirt makes a sun-soaked appearance, while Curly Castro and Amani mix like ice and salt on
Brooklyn sidewalks and Quelle Chris, as always, finds a pocket all his own. Still, there is a natural rapport
that belies the New York-to-Los Angeles-and-back nature of the project, allowing Haram to be more than
the sum of its parts, however impressive those parts may be. This isn’t just the genre’s most insistent
contemporary voices paired with arguably its best producer. This is when you buy a beautiful house only
to discover, hidden behind a heavy bookcase, a stairway twisting up and away into the darkness."
Label: Backwoodz Studioz – BWZ 767B
Format: Vinyl, LP, Red
Vinyl, LP, Instrumental
All Media, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: Oct 23, 2021
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Conscious, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Instrumental
Tracklist
Haram
A1 Sir Benni Miles
A2 Roaches Don't Fly
A3 Black Sunlight
A4 Indian Summer
A5 Aubergine
A6 God's Feet
A7 Peppertree
B1 Scaffolds
B2 Falling Out The Sky
B3 Wishing Bad
B4 Chicharrones
B5 Squeegee
B6 Robert Moses
B7 Stonefruit
Haram Instrumentals
C1 Sir Benni Miles
C2 Roaches Don't Fly
C3 Black Sunlight
C4 Indian Summer
C5 Aubergine
C6 God's Feet
C7 Peppertree
D1 Scaffolds
D2 Falling Out The Sky
D3 Wishing Bad
D4 Chicharrones
D5 Squeegee
D6 Robert Moses
D7 Stonefruit
